Big Start of School Delay

What I mean is, I have been so busy getting my four kids back into the swing of school, that I have had little time to blog about finances. My biggest struggle these two weeks has been paying for all of the back to school clothes and supplies while shopping for my oldest's sixteenth birthday and encountering a huge car repair bill. That makes two huge car repair bills in four weeks. Yikes! This is the sort of thing that can completely throw your budget if you don't have the money previously saved. We did have money saved for the first car repair because we knew that $900 bill was coming. But the second $900 for the second car was not planned, so now we have forked out money out of savings that was set aside for earnest money on a new house for a fall move. Now we have to refigure it all out. We may have to delay the move til spring when we get our tax money back, which is a big bummer. And the fall visit to a college in Florida for my oldest will definitely have to wait til spring. She won't be happy, but oh well. Life happens. I am waiting for the big fall sales to put my kid's clothes resale business on Ebay. Can't sell resell fall clothes until I can buy them at a big discount later this month. Waiting seems to be the theme here! But waiting is better than more debt!!